Whiny NFL QB won't stand for National Anthem

Mowich

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What has it got to do with football? It's about freedom, social justice and the right to have an opinion. Football is just a gladiator sport, like hockey. It is a distraction to keep sheeple occupied by nonsense so they don't have the energy to fight a system that enslaves them with dept and less and less freedoms.

Ah Cliffy.............poor you. What does it have to do with football? Maybe the fact that it happened during a FOOTBALL game? DUH.

Yes sports are a distraction and I thank the Universe for that. You may be able to dedicate your every waking moment to railing against the system but us mere mortals really appreciate being able to just kick back, forget for 60 or 90 minutes about the real world and embrace the game. I find it refreshes my mind wonderfully.
 

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The better question is why are national anthems played at sports events now?

Especially and most hilariously at the Olympics which are supposed to be about the purity of sports and competition.
 

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Did they play the Chilean Anthem when Pinochet filled the stadium?

"Just before they led the one line out into the stadium, they would start the extractor fans in the changing rooms just to make some noise," he said. "They did not want people to know what was happening. Then they would lead the line of people out of the changing rooms into the stadium."

Moments later, Mr Schesch would hear the unmistakable sound of machine- gun fire.

"There was a concrete wall between where I was being held and the stadium but I could hear everything, said Mr Schesch. "On one occasion my wife heard the people in the stadium singing `the Internationale'. Then the machine-guns started.

"The gunfire would last for 45 seconds, maybe a minute, and then there was no sound. Then someone would come back in and turn off the fans."
 

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Man shoots son after fight over kneeling NFL players: Police
Associated Press
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November 28, 2018
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November 28, 2018 10:56 AM EST
Dolphins wide receivers Kenny Stills (10) and Albert Wilson (15) kneel during the national anthem before an NFL game against the Titans, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, in Miami Gardens, Fla.Wilfredo Lee / AP Photo
CARY, N.C. — Police in North Carolina say a man shot and wounded his son on Thanksgiving after a heated fight about NFL athletes kneeling during the national anthem.
Cary police say 21-year-old Esteban Marley Valencia and his brother argued during dinner about the athletes’ protest of racial injustice. News outlets report 51-year-old Jorge Luis Valencia-Lamadrid told officers Valencia then physically attacked his other son so he retrieved a shotgun.
Valencia-Lamadrid said Valencia started throwing furniture and hit him in the face with a water bottle. He said he had been holding the gun by its pistol grip and squeezed the trigger. Valencia was shot in the hand and leg. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Valencia-Lamadrid was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. It’s unclear if he has a lawyer.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/man-shoots-son-after-fight-over-kneeling-nfl-players-police
 

Hoid

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Thank god he had a shotgun in the house.

He might have been beaten up.
 

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'A NEW LOW': PETA defends controversial 'kneel' ad intended for Super Bowl
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February 1, 2020
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February 1, 2020 10:28 PM EST
A screen grab from the controversial PETA ad it said was rejected for airing during the Super Bowl.
MIAMI — Animal rights group PETA defended an ad it said was rejected for the Super Bowl broadcast this year, after some critics said it trivialized and appropriated quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling protest against police brutality and racial injustice.
The minute-long animated spot, which has gone viral on Twitter, shows animals from bears to horses taking a knee, ending with an American bald eagle kneeling, before the caption rolls: “Respect is the right of every living being #EndSpeciesism.”
While some praised the advertisement, others on social media said it exploited a protest first staged by Kaepernick in 2016 to bring attention to police violence against black Americans.
“PETA has a long history of misappropriating images of Black suffering & Black struggle to promote its brand,” Kristen Clarke, the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, wrote on Twitter.
“Using kneeling animals in this #SuperBowl ad is a new low.”
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In an email to Reuters, a representative for PETA, otherwise known as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, defended the ad and said that Kaepernick had approved of it.
“No living being, old, young, from another country, LGBTQ, of color, or of another species, should be disrespected,” said spokeswoman Moira Colley.
She said that Fox, which is broadcasting the Super Bowl, did not accept the advertisement.

http://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/1223177758227828736
http://torontosun.com/news/world/a-...ontroversial-kneel-ad-intended-for-super-bowl
 

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Colin Kaepernick under fire for comparing NFL draft to slavery
Author of the article:Denette Wilford
Publishing date:Nov 01, 2021 • 10 hours ago • 2 minute read • Join the conversation
Colin Kaepernick looks on during his NFL workout held at Charles R Drew high school on November 16, 2019 in Riverdale, Georgia.
Colin Kaepernick looks on during his NFL workout held at Charles R Drew high school on November 16, 2019 in Riverdale, Georgia. PHOTO BY CARMEN MANDATO /Getty Images
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Former quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been called out for a scene in his new Netflix series, Colin in Black and White , by drawing comparisons between NFL recruitment and slavery.

In the clip, Kaepernick explains the process, in which prospective players meet NFL coaches through a series of exercises. As his narration goes on, however, the images in the background switch over from a football field to a slave auction.


“What they don’t want you to understand is what’s being established is a power dynamic,” Kaepernick says in the series.

“Before they put you on the field, teams poke, prod, and examine you,” he continues. “Searching for any defect that might affect your performance. No boundary respected. No dignity left intact.”

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It’s meant to be powerful, but what many got from the clip was the audacity Kaepernick had to make the two very different things seem the same.

One person tweeted , “That’s the most despicable thing I’ve ever seen. To compare that to slavery, completely takes away from what actual slaves went through. Besides the fact that all skin colors go through the combine…. NFL players also dream of playing in the NFL.”

Another wrote , “Wow. I had no idea these players were forced to work, starved, beaten, separated from their families, lynched, and forced to ride the back of the team plane. I just thought they loved the game, were paid a minimum of $9,200/week, got endorsement deals, and were elite at football.”


One woman added : “Didn’t know my ancestors were actually millionaires for kicking a f—— ball round the plantation. Thanks @Kaepernick7 for enlightening you entitled blowhard.”

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Former NFL player Jack Brewer blasted Kaepernick, telling Fox News that Kaepernick’s “doctrine” is the “single largest threat to black men in the United States of America because right now folks are thinking that they’re victims.”

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He continued: “Think about the movement that this guy started, the opportunity that he had that he could actually come and promote positivity to young black men. Telling them how great this country is. He doesn’t have that spirit in him. He has an evil, anti-American spirit, and it’s sick and disgusting.”

Kaepernick did have a lot of people on his side, saying he’s not the first to compare slavery with professional sports.